Window Maker is an X11 window
manager originally designed to
provide integration support for the GNUstep Desktop
Environment, although it can run stand alone. In every way possible, it
reproduces the elegant look and feel of the
NeXTSTEP user interface.
Window Maker on first run
The key features of Window Maker are:
Stacking window manager with ability for semi-automatic tiling management
Lightweight and blazing fast
Easy to use
Highly configurable
Ability to bind keyboard shortcut to wide set of actions
Human readable config files and GUI prefs application
Free and open source
Active community from all of the world
See features section for more. In screenshots
section you can see examples of how users set up their desktops.
Download
Many distributions already have Window Maker included in their software
repositories, so it could be installed directly from there. Other sources are
listed below:
Latest source of stable version is
0.96.0,
released on 2023-08-05. See the NEWS section for more information.
Source code is also available through the
git repository
